Oct. 22, 2025

The Time-Eating Hotel: Vanishing Guests of Room 873

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In this episode, Bennett Tannen explores the haunting legend of Room 873 at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, delving into its mysterious history, the intersection of physics and the paranormal, and the deeper implications of memory and trauma embedded in places. Through a captivating narrative, he examines how folklore, science, and spirituality intertwine, suggesting that the echoes of past events may linger in the very fabric of the hotel, challenging our understanding of time and existence.

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fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream, We ain't just

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broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design then yeah, yeah,

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yo yo, straight from the broadcasto.

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You ever walk a hallway that feels wrong? The lights

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are warm, the carpet is plush, but something in your

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bones says this corridor wasn't built for human beings. Welcome

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to the Fairmont baf Springs, Canada's castle in the Rockies.

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A postcard fortress wrapped in alpine perfection since eighteen eighty eight. Families, weddings,

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ski bums with gold cards, all checking in for mountain

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air and spa robes. But we're not here for the

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brunch a menu. We're here for a door that isn't

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a door anymore, a room that officially doesn't exist anymore.

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Room eight seven three. Some say the number was erased

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after a tragedy. Others say the room was sealed to

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cage a problem the maintenance team can't fix with a

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paint roller. Guests whisper about a child in the hallway.

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Housekeepers talk about stains that return like bad memories. Is

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it haunted a hoax? Or stay with me a place

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where time hiccups and swallows what it wants. So tonight,

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I'm your bellman through the weird. I'm benettone, and this

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is broadcasting seeds, where we sift the folklore, the physics,

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and the faith to see what still stands when the

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ghost stories go quiet. We'll start with what's verifiable. The

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hotel is real. It's grand and very proud of its

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legend soaked history. The room eight seventy three tail that

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lives in the Borderlands, a long running vocal legend echoed

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by countless countless retellings and listicles that hin a murder

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suicide to that number and claim the door was bricked over.

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The legends aren't just entertainment. Sometimes their data, emotional black

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boxes that record collective fear, trauma, and sometimes truth. So

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we'll chase three trails. The building and its history, the

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science that might make time eating rooms plausible, and the

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spiritual frame that says places can remember us, even the

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hearts we try to forget. So buckle up, keep your

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hands inside the corridor, and if a little girl asks

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you what FLOORA the pool's on, don't answer. Before we

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head behind the wall, though, do me a solid like

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share and review the show. It costs you nothing, and

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it's the oxygen this podcast breeze. All right, Shall we

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fry at the dry wall section one, the wall that

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shouldn't be there, history, floor plans, and a missing door.

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Let's start where every ghost story worth that salt begins

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with something you can actually touch. The Fairmont Bamf Springs

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Hotel stands like a Gothic giant against the Rockies, built

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in eighteen eighty eight by the Canadian Pacific railroad. It

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was designed to loure traveler west with luxury and mountain air,

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but it ended up attracting something else. Legends, fires, deaths,

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and disappearances have followed this place like shadows, and right

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there on the eighth floor between rooms eight seven to

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two and eight seven to four, the math doesn't add up.

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The hallway runs clean and seamless, but a closer look

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shows an uneven strip of baseboard, a wall just a

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little too wide, and a faint outline where a door

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should be. Some guests have even claimed to hear muffled

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sounds behind that wall, footsteps, a child laughing, and sometimes

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a knock that comes from the wrong side of the door.

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The story goes like this, A family checked in the

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room eight seven to three decades ago. That night something snapped.

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A father murdered his wife and daughter before taking his

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own life. When the cleaning crew entered the next morning,

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the scene was a nightmare. No amount of scrubbing could

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erase the blood. Every time they repainted, the stains blood

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back through. Guests who stayed afterward reported seeing the little

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girl wandering the halls, knocking on doors, asking if her

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parents were there. Eventually, management sealed the room and erased

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it from the floor plan. So now the hotel officially

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denies any of this ever happened. No police record, no

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death certificate, no maintenance logs about a sealed door. But

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here's the thing. The staff never outright disprove it either.

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They just smile that polite Canadian smile and move on.

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And that might be the creepiest part, the institutional silence

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that follows when something inexplicable happens in a place people

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pay top dollar to visit. Hmm. But maybe there's another layer.

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Maybe this wasn't all ghosts at all. Maybe the reason

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Roommate seven to three was sealed was because something happened

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there that couldn't be explained by human hands or human time.

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And that's where we go next, into the realm of

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quantum physics, haunted architecture, and the unsettling possibility that buildings

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can spend time itself. Section two. The hotel tell that

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eats time. Physics meet the paranormal. If you strip away

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the ghosts for a minute, the bloody handprints, the crying child,

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you're still left with physical mystery. A room that once existed,

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now sealed in the natural world, that shouldn't mean much.

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Walls get moved, floors get remodeled. But what if the

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reason it was sealed wasn't structural but temporal. Physicists talk

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about time like it's elastic, sometimes that can stretch, twist,

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or fold. Einstein's theory of relativity shows that time isn't

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a constant river, but a current that bends around mass

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and energy. In other words, under the right conditions, time

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can loop. Now combine that with some researchers call what

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researchers call residual energy theory, the idea that traumatic events

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leave electromagnetic inference that replay like tapes stuck on repeat.

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If emotion and matter can collide hard enough, maybe a

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place like room eight seven three becomes a kind of

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time bruise, a pocket where moments get stuck. There's a

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precedence for this. In nineteen oh one, two English women

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claim they slipped into the eighteenth century Versailles while walking

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the Garden Palace the Palace gardens, an event now called

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the Moberly Jordain incident. Pilots have reported lost time loss

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near magnetic anomalies. Hikers in Alaska's Triangle have vanished with

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no trace compasses spinning like cheap carnival rides. These aren't

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just ghost stories, they're patterns. I've even had one myself

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where I lost time. So here's the seed that I'm planting.

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What if Bant's Room eight seventy three wasn't just haunted?

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What if it was dislocated, a localized tear in space time,

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a glitch in the simulation, or, as theologians might call it,

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a thin place. In physics, there's a concept known as

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closed timelike curve. It's what happens when time loops back

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on itself. To an observer, it looks like deja vu.

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To someone caught in sight it, it might feel like eternity.

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Energy readings and old buildings, particularly those built with limestone

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and quartz foundations, often show magnetic anomalies. Some geologists even

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suggest that materials act like natural tape recorders, storing emotional

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and energetic data. Combined with bants geological makeup a mountain

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range packed with quartz and limestone, and suddenly the hotel's

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haunting doesn't sound so supernatural. It sounds like science missfiring.

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Here's where things get even darker. In a multiple accounts,

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guests near Room eight seven to three describe feeling time loss.

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I mean watches, stop, phones glitch, people swear they only

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not for twenty minutes but woke up four hours later.

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Now none of this, none of this is officially documented,

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but when you gather enough anecdotes, they start to form

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a pattern. These anomalies show up around places of trauma,

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old hospitals, battlefields, ancient burial sites where emotion and entropy collide.

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It's as if time itself refuses to move forward in

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certain spots. Instead, it loops trapped fragments of memory, energy,

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and maybe even consciousness. And if that's true, maybe what's

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been haunting Springs isn't the ghost of a murdered family.

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Maybe it's the echo of a moment so violent it

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refused to end. Section three echoes behind the door memory,

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trauma and the thin veil. Science gives us the how,

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the spiritual gives us the why, and in places like

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Room seven eight seven three, those two often overlap like

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layers of transparent film. Every ancient culture from the Celts

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to the Hebrews, taught that certain places on Earth are thin,

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the veil between the physical and the spiritual world, where

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they wear down and things, souls, energies, echoes can slip through.

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Some are drawn to these thin places for enlightenment. Others, well,

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they just never leave. So let's circle back to the

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alleged murder. Whether or not it really happened, the story

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has transisted for decades. Why because it feels true. It

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taps into something ancient, thetinct of belief that blood cries

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out from the ground. In Genesis four ten, God claims,

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God says, to Cain, your brother's blood cries out to

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me from the soil. Now that's not a metaphor, that's

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physics wrapped in scripture. Trauma, death, sin. They imprint themselves

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upon creation, and sometimes creation plays it back. The stone

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tape theory suggests that extreme emotions fear, rage, despair, can

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embed themselves into the environment like grooves on a vinyl record.

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Under certain circumstances, usually stress or heightened energy, those grooves

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can replay. That's why people see the same ghosts doing

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the same thing. It's not a conscious haunting. It's a

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rerun memory echoing off the walls. But maybe there's another layer,

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the moral one. Maybe when humanity sheds enough blood, enough fear,

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or enough to spare the veil itself just weakens when

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open doors we when we open doors we never meant

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to open. Think of the Tower of Babbel or cern

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smashing particles trying to peek in two dimensions we barely understand.

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Maybe room eight three seven eight eight seven three isn't

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the only one. Maybe we've built an entire civilization on

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unhealed trauma, sealed behind fresh drywall, pretending the cries aren't there.

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The legend of the Time Eating Hotel isn't just about

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one missing room. It's about what happens when pain, greed,

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and violence get buried instead of redeemed. And like the

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stains that kept bleeding through the paint, the truth always

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finds its way back to the surface. So here's what

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we're left with. A legend that might be folklore, might

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be physics, and might be a mirror. Maybe the Fairmount

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beanf Springs really did seal off room eight seven to

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three to quiet a ghost, or maybe we sealed it

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because it reminded us of something we'd rather not face.

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That human darkness doesn't just die with the body, It lingers.

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It imprints. When you strip away the paranormal dressing, every

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haunting is a story about memory, about what we refuse

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to let go of and what refuses to let go

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of us. Maybe that's why so many time eating places

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exist in our world. Houses. We can't sell wars, we

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can't forget wounds, we don't heal energy, emotion, and sin.

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They all have half lives. Some decay quickly, others they

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echo for centuries, and maybe places like Room eight seven

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three are divine reminders, physical metaphors carved into architecture. They whisper.

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You can wallpaper over your ghosts, but you can't seal

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off the past. So next time you're in a hotel

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hallway and something feels off, take a breath, look down

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the corridor, listen for what the silence is trying to

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tell you, Because maybe it's not haunted by the dead,

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Maybe it's haunted by us. So if this episode got

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your gears turning or gave you that good kind of

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chill that sits in the back of your neck, do

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me a favor like share and leave a review. That's

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how broadcasting seeds grows and keeps diving into the deep

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end of the weird. Again. I'm Benettantin, and you've been

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listening to broadcasting seeds until next time. Keep your eyes open,

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your spirit grounded, and whatever you do, don't knock on

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Room eight seven three.

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Pain over the silence in the hall. They say it's

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under renovation, but remembers it all laughter coord in saded blaster,

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but steps facing.

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In the dusk, every set of fossaster free army, and

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I can't feel there, So.

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I excell say.

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Strown. They said, where the side where close can hide

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behind the blood still still.

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S Time meats you, times your house keepers missed the

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prayers in daylight. She's a fan strong Americans.

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Every new crack.

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Sentment night ever dreams yourself sent There's no record, no mission,

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just a room sealed install But the who still call.

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The door still there?

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Your sun.

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Harpy behind.

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If you find it, So.

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Save and drink you Where the clocks shut, Where the

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whis cross.

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And the walls three line.

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It's lady certainty. Where the soul still hide You can shoot,

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but you'll

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